I hope you know the drill by now - I am listing my top five books that I read in 2010. It's pretty fun, and I hope you all are enjoying it. Ok, enough of me yammering, let's get on to book number two, shall we?
It's Thoughts on Landscape: Collected Writings and Interviews, by Frank Gohlke. I think I've talked about mine and Jen's mutual love of the work of Frank Gohlke, as you might have read about in this blog post. His show at the Carter, Accommodating Nature, was just stunning. This book was really the first text-heavy discussion of photography I have ever read and really enjoyed. How Gohlke speaks about photography, as well as his own photographs was just incredibly illuminating. I highly recommend it!
Here's a quote from this book I really enjoyed, from pg. 137:
I was clear, however, about one thing: the grain elevators could not be considered in isolation from the landscape; the building and its context were inseparable. At the same time, I was beginning to realize that the landscape is not a collection of fixed objects on a static spatial grid but a fluid and dynamic set of relationships. Its appearance is the result of a multitude of forces acting in time on the land itself and its human accretions.
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